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Mobile Browser Detection: many samples, including Apache modRewrite(!)
Check it out at http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
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iPhone and iPad App Monetization Guide
This step-by-step guide is designed to help app developers and entrepreneurs: understand the variety of ways to monetize apps and develop a pricing strategy that is flexible. The guide, by Jen Gordon of Smashing Magazine, is freely available at http://www.designboost.net/app-monetization-guide/
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Running Windows 8 inside VirtualBox
Small step-by-step guide on how to install and run Windows 8 Developer Preview under VirtualBox.
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First Google+ APIs released: read-only people and activitites
Chris Chabot announced the new Google+ APIs: I’m super excited about how the Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards bringing this to your apps as well by launching the Google+ public data APIs. The APIs are available at Google+ Platform…
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Wunderlist for Android is going native, drops Appcelerator Titanium Mobile
Appcelerator’s approach to the Android platform has made another victim, a significant one: 6Wunderkinder’s popular Wunderlist ditched Titanium Mobile (TM) for Android, and is now a native app. “(…) Wunderlist is now native – smaller, faster and more stable.” Matthew Bostock, 6Wunderkinder’s blog Translated, Wunderlist got rid of TM’s biggest problems: Size: even the smallest…
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Apple is trying to recover the stolen/lost iPhone 5 using TV Ads
An Apple employee lost a working prototype of the upcoming iPhone 5 in a bar, and someone took it home. Here is the TV Ad Apple made* on this subject.
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HTML5 Mobile Apps for the Enterprise
Jonathan Stark, blogger and writer of various books (Building Android Apps with HTML(…), Building iPhone Apps (…) without Objective-C among others), compares various approaches to Mobile Enterprise development: Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps (PhoneGap, Titanium et al.): (…) As the mobile enterprise continues to boom and hardware complexity grows with a wide range…
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Now that WebOS died, which is the best development crossplatform for iOS, Android, RIM and WP7?
Yes, the excellent WebOS is defunct, and it will never be the mainstream player as, at least technically, it deserved. For all of us developing for the mobile world that don’t have the time or budget to develop natively in all the mainstream platforms, its one less player to target. Myself, personally, am deciding/evaluating available options for…
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WebOS Emulator error E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005), The solution
I am currently evaluating development frameworks and mobile platforms for my company, so we can choose our path in our next multi-platform mobile applications (to develop specific apps for each platform is just too expensive). This took me to WebOS, clearly a small player, but with HP at the wheel, maybe it will get somewhere.…
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Titanium Mobile’s Android development now less painful than Prostate Exam – Mobile SDK 1.8 (!) + Fastdev
A few days ago, Appcelerator announced a really cool new feature: Fastdev for Titanium Mobile. This thing cuts dramatically development times for Android apps as all the wait time spent recompiling and re-publishing the app to the emulator simply disappears!
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Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8 available
Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8.0 is already available in the Appcelerator’s continuous integration (CI) area: Just choose the “master” branch and download the latest SDK files for your O.S.!
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Updated Titanium autocomplete for 1.5.1 using Eclipse and Aptana
Here is the uploaded javascript header file, updated for Appcelerator’s Titanium Mobile version 1.5.1. This can be used with Eclipse+Aptana’s autocomplete, using the method described by James David Low a while back.
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Titanium Autocomplete
James Low has a AppCelerator Titanium’s API AutoComplete for Eclipse+Aptana. Download it here http://jameslow.com/2010/05/31/titanium-autocomplete-eclipse/ I haven’t tried it yet, I’m using notepad++ still, but I’ll give it a go ASAP!
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Java 4-Ever, the movie
(Updated, new extended version)
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Android ahead of iPhone, second to Blackberry
The open-source Android smartphone market just hit a milestone of sorts: it surpassed the iPhone in popularity, moving into the second overall spot behind industry leader RIM OS (BlackBerry). More in ADT Magazine
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New Titanium Mobile SDK for iPhone and Android
Appcelerator.com just released the new Titanium Mobile SDK 1.3. This release includes mostly bug fixes, for both iPhone and Android platforms and opens the door for iPhone 4.0.
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Using Templates in ASP.NET MVC 2.0
Templating is now in the ASP.NET MVC 2.0 framework, for .NET framework 3.5 and 4.0. Brian Mains explains.
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Try Out the New Microsoft Desktop Player
Microsoft Desktop Player allows developers to access technical content (such as videos, webcasts, podcasts, and white papers) and links to resources (including developer evangelists, local training opportunities, and local user groups) in your area. View it online or download the WPF application to view offline. Try it today! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729757